Problem in importing all tables from MySQL to Hive using Apache Sqoop-1.4.7 - hive

Question

I'm trying to import all tables from MySQL database into Hive database using Apache Sqoop CLI, when i execute the following import command:
[hadoop#localhost bin]$ sqoop import-all-tables --connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/mysql --username root --password root
Somehow the import fails and i get the following error message at the end of the output
20/05/09 23:06:27 INFO sqoop.Sqoop: Running Sqoop version: 1.4.7
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20/05/09 23:06:38 ERROR tool.ImportAllTablesTool: Encountered IOException running import job:
java.io.IOException: Generating splits for a textual index column allowed only in case of
"-Dorg.apache.sqoop.splitter.allow_text_splitter=true" property passed as a parameter
Prior to running Sqoop-1.4.7 i had the following installed and up & running
[hduser#localhost ~]$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_252"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_252-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.252-b09, mixed mode)
[hadoop#localhost ~]$ hadoop version
Hadoop 2.7.2
Subversion https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop.git -r
b165c4fe8a74265c792ce23f546c64604acf0e41
Compiled by jenkins on 2016-01-26T00:08Z
Compiled with protoc 2.5.0
From source with checksum d0fda26633fa762bff87ec759ebe689c
This command was run using /opt/hadoop/share/hadoop/common/hadoop-common-2.7.2.jar
MySQL Server version: 5.6.48
Hive-1.2.2
Based on this configuration, how to import all tables to hive successfully?

Answer 1

It is possible to use a character attribute as split-by attribute.
From the message of your error
Generating splits for a textual index column allowed only in case of
"-Dorg.apache.sqoop.splitter.allow_text_splitter=true" property passed as a parameter
You only need to add -Dorg.apache.sqoop.splitter.allow_text_splitter=true
after your 'sqoop job' statement like this:
sqoop import-all-tables -Dorg.apache.sqoop.splitter.allow_text_splitter=true \
--connect jdbc:mysql://localhost/mysql \
--username root \
--password root